Paths and partitions: combinatorial descriptions of the parafermionic states

DOI10.1063/1.3157921zbMATH Open1248.81200arXiv0903.3550OpenAlexW2042835016MaRDI QIDQ3583590FDOQ3583590

Authors: Pierre Mathieu 

Publication date: 17 August 2010

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Z_k parafermionic conformal field theories, despite the relative complexity of their modes algebra, offer the simplest context for the study of the bases of states and their different combinatorial representations. Three bases are known. The classic one is given by strings of the fundamental parafermionic operators whose sequences of modes are in correspondence with restricted partitions with parts at distance k-1 differing at least by 2. Another basis is expressed in terms of the ordered modes of the k-1 different parafermionic fields, which are in correspondence with the so-called multiple partitions. Both types of partitions have a natural (Bressoud) path representation. Finally, a third basis, formulated in terms of different paths, is inherited from the solution of the restricted solid-on-solid model of Andrews-Baxter-Forrester. The aim of this work is to review, in a unified and pedagogical exposition, these four different combinatorial representations of the states of the Z_k parafermionic models. The first part of this article presents the different paths and partitions and their bijective relations; it is purely combinatorial, self-contained and elementary; it can be read independently of the conformal-field-theory applications. The second part links this combinatorial analysis with the bases of states of the Z_k parafermionic theories. With the prototypical example of the parafermionic models worked out in detail, this analysis contributes to fix some foundations for the combinatorial study of more complicated theories. Indeed, as we briefly indicate in ending, generalized versions of both the Bressoud and the Andrews-Baxter-Forrester paths emerge naturally in the description of the minimal models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3550

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryfermion systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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